brainof7

You've met me a couple times. I left early though, because I can't play MvC3 on PS3 pads at all. I am Tedward2000's friend, and I had bleached hair at it

I had to take a break for a while, and I don't think you recognized me because I bleached my hair. Like I was there when you passed around your driver's lisence :p I am going to get good over the summer, lots of XBL. I tried MvC3 but I think I will mostly be playing Blazblue, and now that I have some background in it, going to be fishing for my real main in the next few weeks

Hahaha, the cosplayers were really funny. I can confirm this

If anyone is open to play, add me on xboxlive. In-state should be low lag and I don't want to randomly add people who aren't going to want to play

Thanks for the extra posts guys, I didn't realize that there was a block after first hit option in training mode! (my TV in my room is pretty small so I can't actually read all the menus unless I am trying to) I learned a bunch of the basic basic ragna combos (thank you Ragna101 thread!) and was able to go in to challenge mode and breeze through ragna's challenges 3-5. Now I just need to find more people to play, because playing the 2 or so people I know every couple days just seems to get me good at playing them instead of playing the game

XBL: superbrainof7 Location: Flagstaff, AZ Name: Nick BBCS: Ragna (but beginner) This is cool, I need to get some practice in and it would be nice if I could hookup with some people in flag or just play some people in state for less lag

Thanks man. Where do you find stuff like that which shows the basic form of the combo and then the more advanced one? I can't find anything like it in the combo threads. I will try and play some games though, matchfinder threads are pretty cool. Thanks a bunch I wish there was a place that said: Learn these (maybe 3ish) combos, go practice and play once you are comfortable learn these ones and so on

I think I can do special inputs just fine, the only things I sometimes have trouble with are the supers which are like 632146 because I skip the control stick over one of the inputs. I also understand that the basic idea is A>B>C>D to do basic stuff, and I am trying to play more. As far as basic > advanced combos go, it seems that there is 1 or 2 basic combos on every character, and then everything gets much much harder. There doesn't seem to be anywhere to branch off from like you are saying. Like if one combo has Stuff > Combo Piece > More Stuff there isn't anywhere that says "learn these easier combo pieces and get good at them, the learn this also easyish combo piece and get good at it, and then you just have to add a few more moves in and you can do more stuff". It is all here is combo A (4 moves). Here is combo B (17 moves) with nothing to help anyone who is stuck trying to bridge that gap. If I could learn combo bits and practice them in play and then slowly add stuff in, that is what I have been looking for!!! I don't mind practicing an hour a day in practice mode to get the combo bits down till I can do them without thinking, it is just that when I am told "this is an easy combo, learn it" and it takes forever to get down the first hard link that it gets too hard to do in 1 day and I can't do it. Is there anywhere that breaks down the more complicated combos into their shorter versions for practice? (I have scoured the combo threads, and would honestly main whichever character the community had done that for) and is there a place to go to find practice partners for online play or something? (bit later down the road but it would be good I think).

I wasn't saying 2 weeks was enough to get good. But two weeks should be enough to get down a couple combos with a couple of hours of practice a day. I am saying I don't want to spend 3 hours a day in practice mode just to get past the barrier to actually playing the game! If I spent three months in practice mode at 3 hours a day, I would probably be able to do some combos but then I would be terrible at actually playing the game. I have no problems with practice mode, but I want to make sure I am 1. Learning the game as efficiently as I can 2. Not screwing my game over in some other way by not doing certain things 3. Not getting into a game that is going to have some really unrealistic time commitment just to be able to play higher than button mashing

At what point do I take really basic combos like this and try to play people to learn the game though? Anything harder than this and I just can't do it, but I can do stuff like this no problem. I was trying out Bang just because he seemed like fun, but when most of his combos revolve around his 623B move and I was having issues getting it out and I was having a hard time learning his general playstyle in general I decided I didn't want to play him. Ragna is ok, I think I might try him out for a while. looking at the BnBs though, the quoted combo is literally the only one I can do. Granted I haven't really tried to learn Ragna that much, but the problem is the huge jump from "easy you can do it on the first try" to "lol have fun while you hate yourself for the next 20 hours of practice!!!!" Also, I assume arcade mode is the opposite of helpful for learning the game?

I feel like I am having more of a hard time understanding how the game works, because it takes me so long to figure out 1 tiny thing on the few characters that I have tried. All my "practice" doesn't really go anywhere, because I spend more time getting frustrated that I can't do a single that I am trying to do because my timing isn't right or w/e. Even when I am watching a video I don't get it. That is why I am trying to find out if there is a good way to ease myself into the game rather than sit around failing the same combo link for the 100th time in 1 sitting. There has to be some way to start small and work up but everything I have seen is just "this does this and this does this, and when you put it all together you have this gigantic 15 hit combo that is going to take the newer players 20+ hours to even pull off in training mode (much less a match) and BTW this is the easy BnB one"

well, not that I am trying to discover a combo, but I will go on the forums and look one up that says "easy bnb". I will look at videos of it, and try to do it piece by piece and take 3 hours to only get part of the combo down.

That is what I have been doing mostly, it just doesn't seem to be clicking at all. I played Hakumen for about 2 and a half weeks and gave up on him when I couldn't figure out any combos at all (besides very very basic ones). I don't want to spend 3+ hours a day in training mode to try and learn combos on a character, esp. when it takes me that 3 hours just to learn 1 link or something. I am going to go back to Ragna I guess, but what I am asking is if there is a better way to ease yourself into the game. I come from SFII, where combos aren't a big deal and it is more about understanding your character. Just learning my character's moves (easy, takes about an hour to get everything down to a pretty decent level) doesn't help me with combos at all.

What is the best way to go about learning the game. I have been going through the story on beginner mode to unlock stuff, but I want to actually get in to the meat of the game. I have tried challenge mode on a few different characters who I though I might like to play, but they are all really difficult at some early point. I also tried the tutorial mode, where I got stuck when the game was trying to get me to fatal counter 3C, 5d >> 5d >> 5d string, which I cannot do. I just feel very frustrated because the game expects me to make huge leaps in what I am able to do. I spent 3 Hours(!) on the bang challenge where it requires you to do some normal combo (believe it was 5C, 2C, 2B, 623B, Super) into his 2363214C Super, and I couldn't do it at all. The game is really cool, but I can't understand how to get to a point where I can actually control a character and understand how they work and be able to do stuff with them. I never played CT, and I got this game when it first came out and have played about an hour a day, many times with friends and the game just degenerates into mash fests. Any help anyone? Thanks, brainof7